[Ohioan]

While agreeing with virtually all of your postulates, I think you are trying too hard to reason with the folly in the age where every wish list gets rationalized; where the socio/political game is distorted by those whose thought processes start in the clouds, and are then developed through the use of words in an undisciplined, but focused pursuit, premised on the notion that those cloud-borne wishes are "self-evident."

We certainly need to understand the experience derived premises of the traditional thinking that we embrace, as Conservatives and as rational beings with a recognition of the importance of intellectual integrity. But, in my own experience. to be really effective, we need to recognize also, as a core principle, that the generic adversary is largely driven by compulsion, greed, or some other base emotion. This does not mean that we should not address the realities of nature & human existence; but the major effort must be to reach those who have been misled, which necessitates learning to discern who has been misled as opposed to whom is driven by neurotic impulses, or evil intent, or other purely base motivations.

William Flax

[Slings and Arrows]

Don’t bother; he’s a post-and-run blog pimp.